SOUTH SUDAN: Government continues taxing church

Yei Catholic Bishop Rt. Rev.
Bishop Erkulano Lodu Tombe has howled to the government over heavy tax charges
demanded from foreign priests, brothers and sisters working in the country. He
said the government continues to tax church expatriate priests, brothers and
sisters in the country.
Bishop Lodu Tombe made the
remarks on Sunday at Christ the King Cathedral while launching a new
transmittersfor Easter Radio for live transmission of Holy Mass.
Bishop Erkulano Lodu Tombe said
the tax on the expatriate is worse than what Sudan government was asking before
South Sudan became independent. He said this signifies as if the government of
South Sudan wants to tell them to return to their own countries of origin.
Source: AMECEA
Social Communication and Sudan Catholic Radio Network

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